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Bautista’s 10th Inning Home Run Gives Toronto the Extra Inning Win

The Yankees came off a
3-game set against the Red Sox where they took two out of three games. The Blue
Jays, having acquired Troy Tulowitzki and David Price at the trade deadline,
are red hot, winning 5 in a row, including having swept the Minnesota Twins in
its last series. The Blue Jays sent knuckleballer and the 2012 Cy Young Award
winner R.A. Dickey (6-10, 4.06 ERA) to counter New York’s Nathan Eovaldi (11-2,
4.30 ERA). Dickey has won his last three outings and hasn’t allowed an earned
run in 21 innings (spanning over two and a half games). Eovaldi is coming in
hot as well; he’s allowed less than 3 runs in 12 of his last 13 starts. With
the Blue Jays red hot and only 4.5 games back in the AL East, this is an
important series. The Blue Jays won 2-1 in 10 innings.

1st Inning

Josh Donaldson helped
the Blue Jays take the 1-0 lead as he reached out and poked Eovaldi’s 2-2
fastball just over the right field wall for his 30th home run of the year. Jose
Bautista walked and Edwin Encarnacion doubled to left to set up runners on
second and third with one out. However, Eovaldi got out of the inning by
getting Justin Smoak to fly out and ex-Yankee Russell Martin to ground out.
R.A. Dickey set the Yankees down in order.

2nd Inning

Eovaldi recovered and
used 8 pitches to set down the Blue Jays in order. In the bottom half, Mark
Teixeira hit a towering shot to left…after an umpire review, it was ruled a
home run! This was Mark Teixeira’s 30th Tex(t) message of the year! The game
was tied 1-1. With two out, Headley and Gregorius hit consecutive singles and
then both moved up a base on a wild pitch. However, Stephen Drew flied out and
the Yankees didn’t score any more runs.

3rd Inning

Eovaldi walked
Donaldson with one out but got out of the inning by getting Bautista to ground
into a 6-4-3 double play. In the bottom half, A-Rod and Teixeira reached via a
walk and a single, respectively, and had runners on 1st and 2nd with 2 out.
Dickey eliminated the threat by getting McCann to ground out to first. The
Yankees and Blue Jays were tied at 1 after three innings.

4th Inning

Russell Martin singled
with two outs but Didi Gregorius helped Eovaldi out by grabbing Ryan Goins’s
sharp grounder to short and the top of the 4th was over. Beltran walked to
start the inning but Headley’s shift-assisted 4-5-3 double play and Gregorius’s
groundout ended the inning.

5th Inning

Eovaldi struck out
Tulowitzki and Donaldson back-to-back and the Blue Jays did not threaten in the
fifth. In the bottom half, Gardner singled with two outs but A-Rod popped out
on Dickey’s first pitch to him.

6th Inning

Both teams went down
in order in the 6th. It was a 1-1 game at the end of six innings.

7th Inning

With one out, Goins
and Pillar reached base on a Teixeira fielding error and infield single to
Headley. Eovaldi was pulled in favor of Justin Wilson; Wilson came in and
struck out Ben Revere. Dellin Betances then relieved Wilson to face Tulowitzki
but walked him on four pitches. Josh Donaldson, who has a career .422 batting
average with the bases loaded, grounded out so the threat was eliminated. R.A.
Dickey completed his 7-inning, 1-run outing by retiring the Yankees and working
around a Didi Gregorius single.

8th Inning

Betances stayed in to
start the 8th and Bautista led off with a bloop single to center. After
Betances struck out Encarnacion swinging and Smoak looking, Bautista stole
second. With Bautista on second, Betances got Russell Martin to ground out.
Threat over, inning over. LaTroy Hawkins came in for Toronto in the bottom half
of the 8th and Gardner singled to start, but A-Rod grounded into a 4-6-3 double
play. He struck out Teixeira and the inning was over. Game was tied at 1
entering the 9th inning.

9th Inning

Andrew Miller relieved
Betances to start the 9th. Pinch hitter Chris Colabello wasted no time and
singled to start the inning. Kevin Pillar then sacrificed to move pinch runner
Munenori Kawasaki to second. After a groundout, Troy Tulowitzki came up with
Kawasaki on third and two out. Biggest moment of the game so far. However,
Tulowitzki lined out to right and the top of the 9th was over. In the bottom of
the 9th, Brett Cecil relieved Hawkins. With one out, Beltran singled and Chris
Young came in to pinch run. However, Headley grounded into a 5-4-3 double play
and the inning was over.

10th Inning

Branden Pinder came in
to start the 10th inning. Jose Bautista greeted him with a solo home run to
left and Toronto led 2-1 going into the bottom of the 10th. Toronto closer
Roberto Osuna came in to try and shut down the Yankees. He set New York in
order and the Blue Jays won.

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